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Edited by Choichi Sugawa, Bernard M. Schuman, and Charles E. Lucas. 564 pp., illustrated. New York, Igaku-Shoin, 1992. $138.50. ISBN 0-89640-221-5.

Advances in biotechnology during the past two or three decades have tremendously altered the ways in which physicians care for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, and it is this premise that has motivated Sugawa, Schuman, and Lucas to develop a multiauthored textbook on the subject. They correctly emphasize that dramatic technical progress makes more important than ever an interdisciplinary, "team" approach that can be adequately served only by a broad-based, comprehensive book.

With nearly 50 clinically active, academically based physicians as authors, this book is unquestionably wide-ranging and detailed. The text describes bleeding from the alimentary canal in terms of its . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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